7. which, as a testimony to their wickedness, is a constantly smoking desolate land, and the trees bear fruit at uncertain times, and a figure of salt stands as a monument to an unbelieving soul.
8. For, in disregarding wisdom, they are fallen, not so much in this, that they were ignorant of good, but that they bequeathed to men a memorial of their foolishness, so that, in the things in which they sinned, they were unable to escape notice.
9. Yet wisdom has freed from sorrow those who are self-observant.
10. She led the just man, this fugitive of his brother's wrath, by the right ways, and revealed to him the kingdom of God, and gave him the knowledge of holiness, honored him in his labors, and completed his labors.
11. In the midst of encircling deceit, she flowed around him and made him honest.
12. She guarded him from his enemies, and she defended him from seducers, and she gave him a strong conflict so that he might overcome and might know that the power of all things is wisdom.
13. She did not abandon the just man when he was sold, but freed him from sinners; she went down with him into the pit,
14. and she did not abandon him in chains, while she brought him the scepter of the kingdom and power against those who oppressed him, and revealed them to be liars who had dishonored him, and gave him everlasting glory.
15. She freed this just people and the blameless offspring, from the nations that had oppressed them.
16. She entered the soul of the servant of God and stood against dreadful kings in the midst of portents and signs,
17. and she rendered to the just the wages of their labors, and led them along a wondrous way; and she was to them, like a cover by day, and like the light of the stars by night.
18. She carried them through the Red Sea, and led them across a great water.